Ireland vs Afghanistan - 5th T20I

Author: Shubham
17 Aug 2022 13:15:05
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Ireland vs Afghanistan - 5th T20I of the Afghanistan Tour of Ireland 2022, at Civil Service Cricket Club, Belfast

Weather Forecast
Clear - 20'C

1. VENUE AND PITCH INFO 

Venue - Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast 

(i) Total Matches - T20s

Overall - 29

Avg 1st Innings - 157
Avg 2nd Innings - 149

Highest total - 190/5 (Bangladesh vs Ireland - 18th July'2012)

Times won batting first - 13
Times won batting second - 16

(ii) Performance of both teams on this ground 

IRE - 17 - 6w/11l
AFG - 4 - 2w/2l

(iii) Recent Matches on this venue 

1) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 15th August'2022
132/6 vs 105/10 (AFG won by 27 runs in 11 overs match) 

Pacers - 3w+6w = 9w
Spinners - 3w+2w = 5w

2) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 12th August'2022
189/5 vs 167/9 (AFG won by 22 runs) 

Pacers - 4w+5w = 9w
Spinners - 0w+3w = 3w

3) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 11th August'2022
122/8 vs 125/5 (IRE won by 5 wickets)

Pacers - 6w+2w = 8w
Spinners - 2w+3w = 5w

4) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 9th August'2022
168/7 vs 171/3 (IRE won by 7 wickets)

Pacers - 4w+1w = 5w
Spinners - 3w+2w = 5w

5) Ireland vs New Zealand - 22nd July'2022
174/6 vs 180/4 (NZ won by 6 wickets)

Pacers - 4w+3w = 7w
Spinners - 2w+1w = 3w

6) New Zealand vs Ireland - 20th July'2022 
179/4 vs 91/10 (NZ won by 88 runs)

Pacers - 4w+3w=7w
Spinners - 0w+6w=6w

7) New Zealand vs Ireland - 18th July'2022
173/8 vs 142/10 (NZ won by 31 runs)

Pacers - 7w+7w=14w
Spinners - 1w+3w=4w

8) South Africa vs Ireland - 24th July'2021 
189/2 vs 140/9 (SA won by 49 runs)

Pacers - 1w+5w=6w
Spinners - 1w+2w=3w

9) South Africa vs Ireland - 22nd July'2021 
159/7 vs 117/10 (SA won by 42 runs)

Pacers - 4w+3w=7w
Spinners - 3w+7w=10w

10) Nepal vs Hongkong - 15th July'2015
109/10 vs 110/5 (HK won by 5 wkts)

Pacers - 6w+5w=11w
Spinners - 3w+0w=3w

SUMMARY 

Pacers 
1st Innings - 43w
2nd Innings - 40w

Spinners 
1st Innings - 18w
2nd Innings - 29w

Overall
83w:47w(Pacers:Spinners) 

(v) Toss Based Analysis on this venue

Ireland (IRE)

1. Andrew Balbirnie 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 44(34), 6(11), 10(16)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 18(14)*, 6(7), 27(22), 12(7), 10(11), 51(38), 46(36), 1(5), 15(5)

2. Mark Adair
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 37(15)*&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 5(5)&1w, 15(16)*&2w, 8(9)&0w, 25(20)&2w, 27(22)&0w, 0w, 2w, 6(6)*&1w, 1w

3. Curtis Campher 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 19(8)*&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 29(21)&1w, 14(14)&0w, 7(7)&2w, 8(12)&0w

4. Gareth Delany 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2(4)&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 5(3)&0w, 0(1), 1w, 3(5)&2w, 16(13)&0w, 3(4)&3w

5. George Dockrell 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w, 1w, 8(8)&0w, 10(12)&1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 2w, 20(20), 15(7)&1w, 0(1)&0w, 10(5)*&2w, 25(19)*, 58(37)*, 41(27)*

6. Stephen Doheny 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

7. Josh Little 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 9(11)&1w, 7(5)*&4w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 2w, 0w

8. Andy McBrine 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 16(7)*&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 0w

9. Barry McCarthy 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 13(9)*&1w, 7(10)&0w, 11(8)&0w, 3w, 0w, 1w

10. Fionn Hand
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 36(18)&1w, 1w

11. Paul Stirling 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 17(13)&3w, 8(9), 1(3), 40(29)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 4(8)&2w, 26(20), 1(2)&1w, 29(21), 19(23)&2w, 18(14), 13(16), 21(15), 31(29), 4(12), 0(2), 20(9)

12. Harry Tector 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 23(20)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1(4)&0w, 3(3), 5(6), 5(7), 2(3), 25(15)*, 5(7)*, 3(5), 13(9)

13. Lorcan Tucker 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 28(19)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 12(10), 19(17), 11(11), 2(7), 50(32), 27(28), 31(21), 4(8)

14. Craig Young 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 4w, 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w, 1w, 22(15)&0w, 0w, 2w

15. Graham Hume
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1(1)&0w

16. Simi Singh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1(6)&1w, 5(3)&1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w

Afghanistan (AFG) 

1. Hazratullah Zazai
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 39(40), 6(4)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

2. Rahmanullah Gurbaz
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 26(22), 1(2), 53(35), 24(13)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

3. Darwish Rasooli
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

4. Nazibullah Zadran
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 15(10), 8(8), 42(18), 50(24)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

5. Mohammad Nabi
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 5(6)&1w, 9(9)&2w, 6(5)&1w, 5(5)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

6. Azmatullah Omarzai
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 11(5)*&0w, 11(13)&0w, 0w, 4(7)&1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

7. Rashid Khan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2(4)&0w, 9(10)&0w, 0w, 31(10)*&2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

8. Karim Janat
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

9. Fazalhaq Farooqi
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 1w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

10. Nijat Masood
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

11. Fareed Ahmad
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 3w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

12. Noor Ahmad
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

13. Sharafuddin Ashraf
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

14. Hashmatullah Shahidi
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 11(12), 36(42)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

15. Naveen ul Haq
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 10(13)&1w, 3w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

16. Ibrahim Zadran
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 29(18)*, 17(13), 36(22), 1(3)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

17. Afsar Zazai
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling -

18. Usman Ghani
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 59(42), 1(9)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling -

19. Mujeeb Ur Rahman
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling -

3. HEAD TO HEAD 

(i) Overall
22 - 16w/6l (in favour of AFG) 

(ii) Last 5 Matches
3w/2l (in favour of AFG) 

(iii) On This Venue
4 - 2w/2l (tied) 

(iv) Recent Head to Head Matches 

1) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 15th August'2022
132/6 vs 105/10 (AFG won by 27 runs in 11 overs match) 

Nazibullah Zadran - 50(24)
Rashid Khan - 31(10)*&2w
Rahmanullah Gurbaz - 24(13)
Fareed Ahmad - 3w
Naveen ul Haq - 2w
Azmatullah Omarzai - 1w
George Dockrell - 41(27)*
Gareth Delany - 3w
Mark Adair - 1w
Barry McCarthy - 1w
Fionn Hand - 1w

2) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 12th August'2022
189/5 vs 167/9 (AFG won by 22 runs) 

Rahmanullah Gurbaz - 53(35)
Nazibullah Zadran - 42(18)
Hazratullah Zazai - 39(40)
Ibrahim Zadran - 36(22)
Naveen ul Haq - 3w
Fazalhaq Farooqi - 2w
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 2w
Mohammad Nabi - 1w
George Dockrell - 58(37)*
Fionn Hand - 36(18)&1w
Lorcun Tucker - 31(21)
Josh Little - 2w
Mark Adair - 1w

3) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 12th August'2022
122/8 vs 125/5 (IRE won by 5 wickets)

Hashmatullah Shahidi - 36(42)
Mohammad Nabi - 2w
Mujeeb Ur Rahman - 1w
Fazalhaq Farooqi - 1w
Naveen ul Haq - 1w
Andy Balbirnie - 46(36)
Lorcun Tucker - 27(28)
George Dockrell - 25(19)*
Josh Little - 2w
Mark Adair - 2w
Curtis Campher - 2w
Gareth Delany - 2w

4) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 9th August'2022
168/7 vs 171/3 (IRE won by 7 wickets)

Usman Ghani - 59(42)
Ibrahim Zadran - 29(18)
Rahmanullah Gurbaz - 26(22)
Mujeeb Ur Rahman - 1w
Naveen ul Haq - 1w
Mohammad Nabi - 1w
Andy Balbirnie - 51(38)
Lorcan Tucker - 50(32)
Paul Stirling - 31(29)
Harry Tector - 25(15)*
Barry McCarthy - 3w
George Dockrell - 2w
Josh Little - 1w
Gareth Delany - 1w

5) Ireland vs Afghanistan - 10th March'2020
142/8 vs 142/7 (IRE won in Super Over) 

Gareth Delany - 37(29)&2w
Harry Tector - 31(22)
Barry McCarthy - 1w
Josh Little - 1w
Craig Young - 1w

Rahmanullah Gurbaz - 42(29)
Naveen ul haq - 3w
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 1w
Rashid Khan - 1w

6) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 8th March'2020
184/4 vs 163/6 (AFG won by 21 runs) 

Hazratullah Zazai - 28(33)
Rahmanullah Gurbaz - 35(30)
Mohammad Nabi - 27(17)
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 3w
Rashid Khan - 1w
Andy Balbirnie - 46(35)
Harry Tector - 37(29)
Gareth Delany - 1w
Craig Young - 1w

7) Ireland Vs Afghanistan - 6th March'2020 
172/6 vs 133/5 (AFG won by 11 runs - D/L)

Paul Stirling - 60(41)
Nazibullah Zadran - 42(21)*
Rashid Khan - 3w
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 1w
Andy Balbirnie - 29(28)
Harry Tector - 29(17)*
Rahmanullah Gurbaz - 28(13)
Hazratullah Zazai - 23(15)

8) Afghanistan vs Ireland - 24th February'2019
210/7 vs 178/8 (AFG won by 32 runs) 
Mohammad Nabi - 81(36)
Rashid Khan - 5w
Andy Balbirnie - 47(33)
George Dockrell - 1w
Hazratullah Zazai - 31(17)

(v) Top Performers from current squads when both these sides meet

IRE

Paul Stirling - highest run scorer (543), Avg (31.94) - 17M/17I
Andy Balbirnie - 12th highest run scorer (146), Avg (18.25) - 8M/8I
George Dockrell - 15th highest run scorer (115), Avg (23) - 17M/12I

George Dockrell - 10th highest wicket taker (8), Avg (50.38), SR (38.88) - 17M/17I
Josh Little - 14th highest wicket taker (6), Avg (51.83), SR (32.67) - 9M/9I

AFG

Hazratullah Zazai - 3rd highest run scorer (411), Avg (68.50) - 7M/7I
Mohammad Nabi - 4th highest wicket taker (399), Avg (33.25) - 18M/15I
Nazibullah Zadran - 11th highest run scorer (161), Avg (32.20) - 14M/12I
Usman Ghani - 14th highest run scorer (128), Avg (32) - 6M/5I

Rashid Khan - highest wicket taker (34), Avg (8.26), SR (8.29) - 13M/13I
Mohammad Nabi - 2nd highest wicket taker (15), Avg (28.67), SR (21.47) - 18M/17I
Mujeeb ur Rahman - 3rd highest wicket taker (12), Avg (16.67), SR (13.50) - 7M/7I
Karim Janat - 7th highest wicket taker (8), Avg (30.50), SR (22.50) - 9M/9I

(vi) Toss Based Analysis (H2H)

Ireland (IRE)

1. Andrew Balbirnie 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 5(4), 29(28), 9(6)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 8(9), 0(1), 2(4), 47(33), 46(35), 51(38), 46(36), 1(5), 15(5)

2. Mark Adair
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 2w, 6(6)&1w, 1w

3. Curtis Campher 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 7(7)&2w, 2w, 8(12)&0w, 

4. Gareth Delany 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 9(10)&0w, 37(29)&2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 7(6)&1w, 1w, 3(5)*&2w, 3(4)&3w

5. George Dockrell 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2w, 2w, 1w, 13(10)*, 8(14)&0w, 34(28)*&0w, 1(1)*&0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0(0)*&1w, 5(2)*&0w, 2(3)&0w, 22(13)*&0w, 3(7)&1w, 0(1)&0w, 18(10)&1w, 9(5)*&0w, 10(5)*&2w, 25(19)*, 58(37)*, 41(27)*

6. Stephen Doheny 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

7. Josh Little 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 2w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 2w, 0w

8. Andy McBrine 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 0w, 1w, 0w, 0w

9. Barry McCarthy 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 4w, 0w, 3w, 0w, 1w

10. Fionn Hand
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 36(18)&1w, 1w

11. Paul Stirling 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 76(23)&1w, 25(24)&0w, 17(18)&0w, 0(2)&0w, 23(25)&0w, 60(41)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 17(29), 21(23), 79(38)&1w, 34(15)&0w, 49(20)&0w, 27(19)&0w, 2(5)&1w, 91(50)&1w, 10(9)&0w, 12(10), 31(29), 4(12), 0(2), 20(9)

12. Harry Tector 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 29(17)*, 31(22)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 37(29), 25(15)*, 5(7), 3(5), 13(9)

13. Lorcan Tucker 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 14(13), 3(3), 9(10)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 9(6), 16(14), 2(5), 16(14), 50(32), 27(28), 31(21), 4(8)

14. Craig Young 
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1w

15. Graham Hume
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 1(1)&0w

16. Simi Singh
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 9(7)&0w, 2w, 12(9)*&2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 20(17)&1w, 1w, 17(12)*&0w, 0w, 13(10)*&0w, 0w

Afghanistan (AFG) 

1. Hazratullah Zazai
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 74(33), 82(54), 162(62)*, 31(17), 28(33), 39(40), 6(4)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 11(6), 23(15)

2. Rahmanullah Gurbaz
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 35(30), 26(22), 1(2), 53(35), 24(13)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 28(13), 42(29)

3. Darwish Rasooli
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

4. Nazibullah Zadran
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 7(2)*, 1(5), 7(10), 20(10)*, 1(2), 12(8), 16(9)*, 15(10), 8(8), 42(18), 50(24)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 4(6)*, 11(11)*, 40(36)*, 42(21)*, 0(1)

5. Mohammad Nabi
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 2(5)&1w, 43(25)*&2w, 1w, 1(2)&0w, 4w, 34(15)&0w, 89(30)&1w, 7(5)&1w, 12(5)&1w, 17(5)&0w, 81(36)&0w, 27(17)&0w, 5(6)&1w, 9(9)&2w, 6(5)&1w, 5(5)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 6(6)&0w, 26(17)*&2w, 1(2), 49(40)*&2w, 4(8)&0w

6. Azmatullah Omarzai
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 11(5)&0w, 11(13)&0w, 0w, 4(7)&1w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

7. Rashid Khan
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 5w, 3w, 3w, 4w, 4w, 5w, 1w, 2(4)&0w, 9(10)&0w, 0w, 31(10)*&2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 2w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 3w, 1w

8. Karim Janat
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 3w, 2w, 0w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 2w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 0w

9. Fazalhaq Farooqi
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w, 1w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

10. Nijat Masood
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

11. Fareed Ahmad
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 3w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

12. Noor Ahmad
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

13. Sharafuddin Ashraf
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

14. Hashmatullah Shahidi
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 11(12), 36(42)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

15. Naveen ul Haq
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 1w, 3w, 2w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 3w

16. Ibrahim Zadran
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 29(18), 17(13), 36(22), 1(3)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

17. Afsar Zazai
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 
2nd Batting/1st Bowling - 

18. Usman Ghani
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 59(42), 1(9)
2nd Batting/1st Bowling -

19. Mujeeb Ur Rahman
1st Batting/2nd Bowling - 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w
2nd Batting/1st Bowling -

3. SQUAD INFO WITH DETAILING 

A) IRELAND (IRE) SQUAD : 

Probable XI

1) Paul Stirling - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 20, 0, 4, 31, 28, 18, 10, 17, 27, 40, 21, 13, 120, 0

2) Andy Balbirnie - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 15, 1, 46, 51, 0, 14, 52, 31, 27, 10, 10, 12, 0, 2

3) Lorcan Tucker - RHB, WK 
Last 10 - 4, 31, 27, 50, 0, 78, 0, 77, 17, 28, 2, 11, 14, 19

4) Harry Tector - RHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 13, 3, 5, 25*, 34, 6, 28*, 58*, 13, 23, 2, 5, 108, 4

5) Gareth Delany - RHB, Legbreak 
Last 10 - 3r 3w, 16r 0w, 3r 2w, 1w, 0r 2w, 2r 2w, 25*r 1w, 1r 1w, 13r 1w, 2r 0w, 0, 5r 0w, 22r 1w, 0r 0w

6) George Dockrell - RHB, LAO
Last 10 - 41*, 58*, 25*, 10r 2w, 3r 0w, 48r 0w, 1r 3w, 69r 2w, 68r 0w, 10r 1w, 0r 0w, 15r 1w, 22

7) Simi Singh - RHB, RAO
Last 10 - 0w, 9r 2w, 9r 1w, 43r 1w, 16r 2w, 30r 0w, 33r 0w, 1w, 38, 30r 4w

8) Mark Adair - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 1w, 6r 1w,  2w, 0w, 2r 1w, 2r 0w, 3r 2w, 0r 3w, 11r 1w, 37r 0w, 27r 0w, 25r 2w, 27r 2w, 2w, 

9) Fionn Hand - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 1w, 36r 1w, 0w, 28r 0w, 1w, 1r 1w, 1w, 1w, 21r 2w, 1w, 30r 0w, 11r 0w

10) Barry McCarthy - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 1w, 0w, 3w, 32r 1w, 8r 0w, 4w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 11r 0w, 7r 0w, 110r 2w, 12r 1w

11) Josh Little - RHB, LFM 
Last 10 - 0w, 2w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 1w, 2w, 0r 2w, 7r 4w, 2w, 0w, 1w

BENCH 

12) Stephen Doheny - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 58, 26, 52, 35, 97, 3, 46, 74*, 18, 2, 29, 36, 10

13) Andy McBrine - LHB, Offbreak 
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 0w, 2r 1w, 10r 1w, 32r 0w, 8r 2w, 39r 2w, 26r 0w, 28r 0w, 39r 1w, 0w, 0w

14) Craig Young - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 2w

15) Graham Hume - LHB, RAM
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 3w 

16) Curtis Campher - RHB, RMF
Last 10 - 8r 0w, 7r 2w, 19r 0w, 0r 0w, 0r 3w, 20r 1w, 7r 1w, 19r 0w, 14r 0w, 29r 1w, 5r 1w, 25r 1w

Safe C/VC choices
George Dockrell, Gareth Delany

B) AFGHANISTAN (AFG) SQUAD :

Unavailable - Fazalhaq Farooqi

Probable XI

1) Hazratullah Zazai - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 6, 39, 30, 20, 73&1w, 2, 32, 2, 12, 28, 45, 5

2) Rahmanullah Gurbaz - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 24, 53, 1, 26, 6, 30, 09 121*, 55, 65, 20, 19, 26, 1

3) Ibrahim Zadran - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 1, 36, 28, 4, 31* 1&0w, 25, 91, 81*, 57, 14, 14, 8

4) Nazibullah Zadran - LHB, RAO
Last 10 - 50, 42, 8, 15, 43, 67, 0, 81, 37, 21, 5, 83*, 51, 9

5) Mohammad Nabi - RHB, RAO
Last 10 - 5, 6r 1w, 9r 2w, 5r 1w, 4&0w, 2w, 5&2w, 0w, 15&0w, 31, 43*&1w, 15*&1w, 34*&2w, 2w

6) Azmatullah Omarzai - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 4r 1w, 0w, 11r 0w,11r 0w, 10&3w, 3w, 14&1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 34*&0w, 3w, 11&0w

7) Sharafuddin Ashraf - RHB, LAO
Last 10 - 0w, 13*&1w, 12&1w, 44&0w, 4*&3w, 1w, 44&3w, 20&0w, 1w, 0w, 1w

8) Rashid Khan - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 31r 2w, 0w, 9r 0w, 2r 0w, 0w, 25*&2w, 11&3w, 3&1w, 1w, 8&0w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 1w

9) Fareed Ahmad - LHB, LAM
Last 10 - 3w, 0w, 3w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 0w

10) Naveen ul Haq - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 2w, 3w, 10r 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 4w, 0w, 3w, 2w, 0w, 2w, 5w, 1w

11) Mujeeb ur Rahman - RHB, RAO
Last 10 - 0w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 3w, 0w, 0w

BENCH

12) Fazalhaq Farooqi - RHB, LAM
Last 10 - 2w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 3w, 1w, 3w, 0w, 0w, 1w

13) Usman Ghani - RHB
Last 10 - 1, 59, 69, 4, 32, 31, 72*, 17, 46, 14, 21

14) Darwish Rasooli - RHB, RAO
Last 10 - 51, 41*, 12*, 11, 0, 70, 16, 84, 9*, 2

15) Nijat Masood - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 3w, 0w

16) Karim Janat - RHB, RAM
Last 10 - 4&0w, 30*&1w, 24&2w, 44&0w, 40&1w, 10, 6&w, 12&1w, 0w, 10*&1w

17) Afsar Zazai - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 14, 16, 67*, 14, 2*, 3, 28, 2, 24

18) Noor Ahmad - RHB, Left Arm Spin
Last 10 - 0w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 4w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 1w

19) Hashmatullah Shahidi - LHB, RAO
Last 10 - 36, 11, 90, 62, 8&1w, 15, 42&1w, 56, 51, 29*, 58*, 38

Safe C/VC choices
Rashid Khan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz

Differential GL C/VC choices

IRE - Mark Adair, Josh Little, Fionn Hand, Paul Stirling, Gareth Delany, Simi Singh, Barry McCarthy 

AFG - Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Nazibullah Zadran, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Naveen ul Haq

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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:07:11 GMT
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